The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-09-01

nope Anderson Will. Wakes up and secure
one. Let those. e.sWho are able invest
large sums, and those who are in limited
circumstances take one or:more shares of
stock, and We will have the factory. It
will pay all classes.
The farmers Meeting at Sandy
rs Springs.
The meeting Of the farmers at Sandy
Springs on the 23rd Of August was every.
thing that could have been desired by
the most ardent friends ofthe movement.
The success Of the meeting was largely
due to the admirable arrangements of
Mr.. ID. z. Norris, the chairman, ably
seconded as he was BY the Sandy Springs
Democratic Club. The Inauguration of
this meeting by the Club will prove to
be the most important public move since
the war-agricult socially and ipo.
;litically. Let other Counties follow the
example thus successfully carried out in
Anderson, and very soon the farmers of
the whole State will be in a blaze of en-.
;thusiasm. Let the ball roll on, from
mountain to seaboard, from hilltop to
valley, until corruption in high places
and ring rule is forever banished from
the control Of the Palmetto State. And
the farmers are the very class to lead in
this; movement. All history, ancient
and modern, attests the fact that the
:agricnlturists of any nation are its main
support and defence from the eurging
waves Of official corruption. AS class
they have no axes to grind, no partizan
OF: selfish ends to accomplish, but as
members Of the body polite are only
interested in good governments gov
.ernment Of the people, by the people,
and for the people. Mr.. Tillman has
taken the bull by the horns, and if prop.
,erly supported by the people will clean
out the augean- stable.
But while: the farmers movement
should be. positive and determined on
the line indicated, tits important that
in time they should be forewarned against
any diversion from their main purpose.
The tariff has been thrown into the
discussion for partizan purposes, so as,
if possible, to cause a halt among the
farmers in their onward movement, 80
,that!their progress towards real reform
in the State and national government
shall be arrested By throwing them the
bones of a dead carcass ION which to
4gnaW, rather thar press forward to the
overthrow Of official corruption; and mee
.nopoly of every kind. M i. Tillman. Of
this State, and Gen; Miles, of Georgia,
5haye shown the fallacy ,of this tariff
agitation. Ever since the formation Of
the government the revenues for its nee
essary expenses have been derived
mainly by q tariff on foreign imports;
and as. it has been in the past SO will it
continue to be in the future, and the
principle of protection to home industries
in the adjustment of this tariff for reve.
nue., is just as firmly imbedded in the
governmental policy Of the American
people. By practical test, the farmers
have learned that a tariff on foreign
imports is the least burdensome tax on
them that can be imposed, and that q
moderate protection in the adjustment
of said tariff 10 cur own industries,
affords to our farmers the very best mar
kets fol; our agricultural products, and at
the sarc time reduces the price of man
ufactured. articles to the consumer by
the increase and competition of factories
in their varied productions. The stats.
tics of the country show that from 80 to
IS per cent of all oury surplus agricultu-
raj products are consumed at home.
How idle, then, to talk Of free trade,
when We know, from past experience
that the only practical effect would be to
bring the American laborer into direct
competition with the pauper labor of
Europe, and thus drive our own manu-
factures to the wall BY such suicidal
policy. As Gen. Miles so well said in
his speech st the Atlanta International
Convention of farmers recently held,
when our pseudo politicians begin to
estimate the;losaes to the farmers Of the
South by 1.-the operation Of protective
tariff, in justice they ought to take into
the account the losses by the purchase OF
Kentucky. mules, and Western bacon
and flour and corn. We opine the
latter calculation would oyertop the for.
mer, by a very large per cent. Let US
not repeat the folly ofstraining at q gnat
and swallowing camel on the tariff
question. T. 81. r.
"a Whisky Revolt in Atlanta.